This Feudatory Territory has three grand divi sions. The N.E. division comprises the Native States of Bundelkhand and Rewa. The northern division consists of the northern and central dis tricts of the Gwalior States. The S.W. division comprises the table-land known in modern times as Malwa, though far within the ancient limits of the province of that name, and the submontane territory between it and the Nerbadda, as also a considerable tract south of that river, extending to the Kandesh frontier. The 1st or N.E. divi sion, extending from the Bengal Presidency in the E. to the Gwalior State in the W., includes Rewa and 35 other states and petty chiefships. Its area is about 22,400 square miles, its popu lation about 3,170,000 souls, and its public revenues aggregate about Rs. 63,58,000. The 2d or N. division extends from Bundelkhand and the Saugor district, and has an area of about 19,505 square miles ; its population is about 1,180,000 souls, and its public revenue about Rs. 67,65,000. The 3d or S.W. division goes on westward to the Bombay Presidency, and contains the remainder of Gwalior, Holkar's States, Bhopal, Dhar, Dewas, and other small states. The area of this division is about 41,700 square miles, its population about 3,320,000 souls, and its public revenues about Rs. 1,30,00,000.
Dhil.—Tho desolate wilds and jungles of the tern Satpura range, and parts of the country ich extend from them to the Vindhya Hills, occupied by Bhil tribes, who abhor field ur or manual labour of any kind.
/a hva.—Adjoin i ng this are the richly-cultivated ins of Malwa, with occasionally intervening eta of hill and jungle, from the Myheo on the t to Ilhilsa on the east,—a stretch of nearly 200 Iles, and from the crest of the line of the Vindhya to Mundissore and Oomutwarra, a distance of 100 to 120 miles, and occupied by a thrifty agricultural people.
]filly T•act.—This is succeeded by the more hilly andjuugly tracts of Oomutwarra, Seronje, and Keechiwarra, with a scanty population.
Gwalior. —Northwards towards Gwalior the country becomes more open, except on the wild border tracts of Kotah and dBundelkhand, till we come to the carefully-cultivated plain of Gwalior, stretching for a distance of 140 miles between the Chatnbal, Pahuj, and Sind rivers.
Randal:hand is ruled by the Bundela race. A vast portion of Bundelkhand is hilly and unpro ductive, forming the northern slope of the table kual of the Vindhya.
Ret•a is ruled by the Baghela race. The plains of Rewa arc fertile, but the valley on the Sone to the south of the Kymore range is desolate. The people are indolent and untrustworthy. Though widely different in other respects, there is one characteristic common to the Baghel of Rewa, the Bundela of Bundelkhand, and the Rajput of Gwalior and Malwa,—a dislike to labour or service away from their homes. They generally leave tilling of the soil to the inferior and servile classes, and are regarded as the heads of the local society. Many of the Rajputs in the states of , Central India give themselves up to sloth and the immoderate use of opium.
Malwa and Gwalior are great centres of trade. In Malwa, the towns of Indorc, Bhopal, Ujjaiu, Mundipur, Rutlam, Mar, Jowra, Augur, Nemuch, I Sltjawnlpur, and Bhilsa are the principal marts.
Indere is the capital of the Maharaja Holkar. Gwalior is the capital of the Maharaja Sindia.
Rajputana Ageney.—Rajputana stretches from hat. 15' to N., and from long. 69° 30' to 78° 15' E., containing an area of 123,000 square miles, with a population estimated at 10,268,392, end includes twenty principalities, viz.: 15 Rajput, viz.
Mewar (Udaipur),I Bikanir, Sirohi; Jeypore.Kotah. Dungurpur.
Kerrowleo. Banawara.
Bondi. Kisheughur, Partabgurb.
, I.:ma. Jeysulmir, Jliallawnr,' ;:hahpura. Ulwar.
2 Jat, viz. Bhurtpur, Dholpur, 1 Mahomnedan, viz. Tonk.
In 1881, there were in Rajputana 8,839,243 llindus, 861,747 Muhomedans, and 378,672 Jains, the aboriginal races being Ahir, Bahl, Bhil, Chamar, Dhakur, Gujar, Jat, Kanta, Mina, and Sondhia. The Bhils are—in Duugurpur, 65,952 ; Udaipur, 51,076 ; Banswara, 48,045 ; and Partab durh, 270.
Froniier&—Around theborders of Hindustan are many independent states, republics, theocracies, and democracies, with most of which the &Wall Government, as a paramount power, have treaties or agreements. Commencing in the S.1V. on the shores of the Arabian Sea, and enumerating the states in succession northwards, and again turning to the S.E., are Lus Beila, lIaluchistan, Sewistan.
Near the Debra Maxi Rhan district arc the Bugti, Murree, Gurchani, Lughari, Kosah, and Khutran.
Near the Debra Ixmall Kkan district are the Bozdar, Kusrani, Osliterani, Sheorani, and 1Vaziri, Near the hobo[ district arc Turi, Zymukht, Orakzai, Sepalt, Buzoti, and Afridi.
Near Peskaleur are the Momuud, Usman-Khel, Ranizai, Swati, Bunurwal, and Judnn.
Near the Hazara district, the Itusanzai.
On the north arc Ruka, Nari-Khorsam, Garb wal, Hundes, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Towang. Beyond Hindustan, in Further India, many tribes on the Assam borders, Manipur, Tiperah, and numerous Shan, Karen, etc., tribes in native Burma, Chittagong, and Arakan, with Burmese and Talaing in British Burma.
People.—Several civilised nations are found within the above space, in the Indian plains, but dif fering from each other, in manners and language, even more than those inhabiting any correspond ing portion of Europe. The inhabitants of the dry countries in the north of Hindustan, which in winter are cold, are comparatively manly and active. The Mahratta, inhabiting a mountainous and fertile region, are hardy and laborious ; while the Bengali, with their moist climate and their double crops of rice, where the cocoanut tree and the bamboo furnish all the materials for the construction of their houses unwrought, are more effeminate than any other people in India, and a love of repose, though not sufficient to extinguish industry or repress occa sional exertions, may be taken as a characteristic of the whole people of the Bengal Province. Akin to their indolence is their timidity, which arises more from the dread of being involved in trouble and difficulties than from want of physical courage ; and from these two radical influences almost all their vices are derived.